Putas Asesinas (Naturaleza E Historia) (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Roberto Bolano (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2003 | Series: Naturaleza E Historia (Book 314)

Una deslumbrante coleccion de relatos de un autor que se ha convertido en una de las voces imprescindibles de la literatura en lengua espanola.

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About the Author

Roberto Bolano (Chile, 1953-2003). Uno de los escritores latinoamericanos imprescindibles de nuestro tiempo. Premio Herralde de Novela. Premio Municipal Santiago de Chile. Premio Romulo Gallegos. Premio Ciudad de Barcelona. Premio Salambo. Premio Fundacion Lara. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: Anagrama (September 2003)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8433924850
• ISBN-13: 978-8433924858
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,950,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed "by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times)," and as "the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50. Chris Andrews has won the TLS Valle Inclán Prize and the PEN Translation Prize for his Bolaño translations.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful stories with a misleading title, July 3, 2007

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Antonio Gonzalez (Amarillo, TX U.S. A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Putas Asesinas (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

This collection of 13 stories by Roberto Bolano is misleadingly titled and I presume because of its offensive title most would think this is a pornographic book. The book's cover doesn't help much either.

You will be surprised then, when the book turns out to be a delightful collection of interesting, humorous stories, likely to become a classic of Spanish fiction.

The "x-rated" title is taken from one of the stories in this collection, a beautiful, lyric, impressionist tale.(No, prurience there.) He also tells stories about failed and successful artists, vacationing filial couples, with a strong taste for iguana meat (You will have to figure that one yourselves), a woman who teaches in a rural governmental poetry school and satisfies her artistic needs listening to a Mexican Rancheras radio station. (If you wonder what these type of music is, think of a mariachi singing solo, heart-crushing songs in loud tenor (alto)voice--(not poetic--not much.). And he writes of displaced Chileans with personal and ingenious political ideologies, one of which suffers from "bibliographic dementia" and confuses Marx with Che Guevara,also of a self-anointed politician who radiates moonlight, and of "Buba" the magnificent, enchanted African soccer player, and more. I would be remiss if I didn't tell about a story which gives 69 reasons not to dance with Pablo Neruda (Chilean Nobel Laureate poet).

Hope you will agree, this is a classic creation. Enjoy!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bueno, pero no grandioso., April 2, 2009

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Roberto J Porta "Roberto" (Nicaragua) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Putas Asesinas (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Después de leer "Nocturno de Chile" y las críticas excelentes sobre "Detectives Salvajes", me decepcioné un poco con "Putas Asesinas". Podría decir que de los trece cuentos, cinco me impresionaron, seis me gustaron a medias y dos me aburrieron. Empero, no hay duda que Bolano es un buen escritor, digno de nuestro respeto y admiración. Quizás su punto fuerte sean las novelas y no las historias cortas.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Putas asesinas, May 3, 2009

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Herman Mares Sr. - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Putas Asesinas (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

I had read many professional reviews regards this author and his works and nearly all have been favorable. I was not disappointed.